Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Twin Cities Area
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown